Senior Full Stack Developer - Portfolio Management System

Luxoft; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced Software Developer to modernize a mission-critical PMS, moving from a WPF desktop platform to a scalable, API-first ecosystem. You will handle UI modernization, API development, performance optimization, and migration toward modular architectures across desktop, web, and data layers.

The role requires deep WPF/XAML/MVVM expertise, 10+ years in enterprise software, and buy-side domain exposure (PMS/OMS/EMS).

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering enterprise applications.
• Strong C# and .NET experience, including legacy .NET Framework and modern .NET versions.
• Deep experience with WPF, XAML, MVVM, desktop application architecture, and multithreading.
• Buy-side investment technology experience, particularly PMS/OMS/EMS or related front-office workflows.
• Hands-on DevExpress experience, including complex grids and performance-sensitive UI.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using ASP.NET Core or equivalent technologies.
• Python development experience for services, automation, analytics, or AI-related components.
• Strong SQL Server development and performance-tuning skills.
• Experience creating both web-based and rich desktop applications.
• Proficiency with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and Azure DevOps or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Modernize existing .NET/WPF/DevExpress applications.
• Refactor legacy components, reduce technical debt, and improve maintainability.
• Improve the application UX while preserving front-office workflows.
• Design and build secure RESTful APIs for PMS data access and integrations.
• Profile, diagnose, and optimize desktop, server, and data components.
• Collaborate with investment users to identify high-value AI use cases.
• Support migration toward modular, scalable architecture and service-oriented components.

Skills

C#/.NET

WPF/MVVM

API design

Python

SQL Server

Multithreading

Git

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Performance tuning

Tools

DevExpress

REST APIs (ASP.NET Core)

Job description

Project description

We are seeking an experienced Software Developer to help modernize a mission-critical Portfolio Management System (PMS) used by investment professionals across front-office investment functions.The successful candidate will play a key role in transforming a mature WPF-based desktop platform into a modern, scalable, high-performance application ecosystem. The work includes UI modernization, platform upgrades, API development, performance optimization, architecture simplification, technical debt reduction, and AI-enabled user experiences.This role is well suited to an engineer with experience in buy-side portfolio, order, execution, risk, or investment analytics platforms who is comfortable working across desktop, web, service, integration, and data layers.

Responsibilities

• Key Responsibilities:Application Modernization
• Upgrade and modernize existing .NET, WPF, and DevExpress applications.
• Refactor legacy components, reduce technical debt, and improve maintainability.
• Improve the application user experience while preserving critical front-office workflows.
• Contribute to target architecture decisions and phased modernization plans.Performance Engineering
• Investigate and resolve application freezing, slow response times, memory leaks, and crashes.
• Profile and optimize desktop, server-side, database, and integration components.
• Improve data loading, caching, processing, and resource-management patterns.
• Implement appropriate diagnostics, logging, health monitoring, and performance measures.
• Reduce reliance on legacy SOA, middleware, and tightly coupled dependencies.
• Design simpler service-oriented and API-first components.
• Support migration toward modular, scalable, and supportable architecture patterns.
• Assess MongoDB dependencies and recommend pragmatic simplification or replacement approaches.
• Design and build secure RESTful APIs for PMS data access.
• Develop integrations with trading, risk, reporting, analytics, and downstream systems.
• Implement authentication, authorization, validation, auditing, observability, and error handling.
• Produce clear API specifications and technical documentation.
• Build an AI-powered prompt/chat experience within the PMS.
• Integrate enterprise Large Language Models and approved AI services.
• Develop prompt orchestration, tool-calling, retrieval, guardrails, and workflow automation capabilities.
• Partner with investment users to identify and deliver high-value, controlled AI use cases.
• Maintain and enhance rich desktop capabilities while introducing web-based applications where appropriate.
• Deliver across frontend, backend, service, integration, and data layers.
• Apply automated testing, code review, secure development, and CI/CD practices.

SKILLS

Must have

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering enterprise applications.
• Strong C# and .NET experience, including legacy .NET Framework and modern .NET versions.
• Deep experience with WPF, XAML, MVVM, desktop application architecture, and multithreading.
• Buy-side investment technology experience, particularly in one or more of the following areas: Portfolio Management Systems (PMS) , Order Management Systems (OMS), Execution Management Systems (EMS), Front-office trading applications, Fixed income, equities, FX, derivatives, swaps, options, TRS, or CDS workflows
• Hands-on DevExpress experience, including complex grids and performance-sensitive user interfaces.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using ASP.NET Core or equivalent technologies.
• Python development experience for services, automation, analytics, or AI-related components.
• Strong SQL Server development and performance-tuning skills.
• Experience creating both web-based applications and rich desktop/fat-client applications.
• Practical expertise in profiling, diagnostics, memory management, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and Azure DevOps or similar engineering platforms.

Nice to have

• React, Angular, or comparable modern web framework experience.
• MongoDB and data-access modernization experience.
• Microservices, modular monolith, event-driven, or message-based architecture experience.
• Microsoft Azure, containerization, Kubernetes, and enterprise API management experience.
• Experience integrating LLMs, AI assistants, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling, or enterprise AI gateways.
• Familiarity with application security, data entitlements, auditability, and regulated environments.